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Text to Speech app: "THERE ARE NO LIMITS OF TOTAL CHARACTERS PER YEAR, JUST A LIMIT ON EACH INDIVIDUAL CONVERSION. THE PLANS BELOW DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT CHARACTER COUNTS PER CONVERSION. example: If you had 120,000 characters to process: For Free you could cut those characters up and make 240 mp3 files on the other hand for $69.99 for a whole year, you could divide those characters up and make only 2 mp3 files. And you can do this until your subscription runs out."

Useful for National Centers and other projects

science education: Chickscope - Using computers in the classroom with access to the Internet, students and teachers are able to access data generated from the latest scientific instruments. The goals include an increased understanding of the process of gathering scientific data and the opportunity to interact with scientists from several disciplines and students in other classrooms The access to unique scientific resources and expertise provides motivation for learning science and mathematics and stimulates interest in the scientific world.

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

You have two version choices when use this free online picture editor: Flash & HTML. This is very easy-to-use tool, just select your photo then choose the modifications to apply; although it's still in Beta version you can still choose up to 5 imaging processing functions and 12 special image effects. Wondering what are the good points of this tool? It supports all popular picture file formats (JPG, TIFF, NPG, GIF, BMP, TGA, …) and camera RAW formats (CRW, NEF, RAF, CR2, DNG, …), more than 400 formats supported. That's so powerful imaging solution!

In the simple white design layout of this photo editor; you still have many image processing features such as Shape solutions, Image Filters along with the basic functions of an image editor.

Just with a few basic functions such as: Resize, Crop, Rotate, Brightness & Contrast and some special imaging effects: Blur, Polaroid, Oil Paint, etc but this free online photo editor processed over five million pictures since 2008. The advantages of this editor are simple & clean layout with images, no Flash required and many formats exporting with various quality choices.

Sumo Paint is really a "big" Paint program for imaging solutions and image processing. With the Mac-style design, this tool provides us many choices to edit an image through Photoshop-like layout. Sumo Paint's remarkable features such as: layer support, Photoshop layout and multiple document support make it's worth to use.

Six phases of web design: very good for instruction and/or internal use

The Process and Potential of Dialogue in Social Change